Perioperative Visual Loss in Spine Fusion Surgery: Ischemic Optic Neuropathy in the United States From 1998 to 2012 in the Nationwide Inpatient Sample

(Abstracted from Anesthesiology, 125(3):457–464, 2016) The number of patients undergoing spinal fusion surgery in the United States is the highest in the world. Developing perioperative visual loss as a result of ischemic optic neuropathy (ION) is a rare complication.
Source: Survey of Anesthesiology - Category: Anesthesiology Tags: Perioperative Complications Source Type: research